Steve Dempsey is a page designer, copy editor and handles digital production for the Bay Area News Group's editorial and opinion pages. He is also a videographer, video editor and hosts an ongoing online live video chat over Google Hangout. He joined the organization in 1998 after stints with daily newspapers throughout Solano and Yolo counties.

Rather than leaving their families behind, while facing possible death and paying “coyotes” to bring them to America in search of a better life, why don’t these immigrants protest in front of Mexican consulates or the Mexican Embassy and demand their government grant them the freedoms Americans enjoy?